As Colin drove his sheep along
- DMI number:
- 3649
- First Line:
- As Colin drove his sheep along
- Last Line:
- Blither girls than any there
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Lampoon, Topical satire, Satire, and Couplet
- Themes:
- Other countries[France], Places[King's mistress sells "her place".], Politics, Sex and bawdy humour, Sex / relations between the sexes, and Women / the female character
- Author:
- Charles Sackville
- Confidence:
- Confident (50%)
- Comments:
- Vieth (1968): 223: 'probably by Charles Sackville'. POAS (1965) II: 168-175: 'there is evidence that the poem is by Dorset' (167). Harris (1979): 124-135.
- Author:
- John Wilmot
- Confidence:
- Speculation (10%)
- Comments:
- Vieth (1968): 223: Noted but omitted.
- Title:
- Poems on affairs of state [vol. I] [T144919]
- Page No(s):
- pp.132-135
- Poem Title:
- Cullen with his Flock of Misses, 1679.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- Title:
- Poems on affairs of state [vol I] [T108847]
- Page No(s):
- pp.132-135
- Poem Title:
- Cullen with his Flock of Misses, 1679.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- Title:
- Poems on affairs of state [vol. I] [N12193 part 1]
- Page No(s):
- pp.132-135
- Poem Title:
- Cullen with his Flock of Misses, 1679.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- Title:
- Poems on affairs of state [vol. I] [T144920 part 1]
- Page No(s):
- pp.132-135
- Poem Title:
- Cullen with his Flock of Misses, 1679.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- Title:
- Poems on affairs of State: from the time of Oliver Cromwell to the abdication of K. James the second. [ESTC R26563]
- Page No(s):
- pp. 132-5
- Poem Title:
- Cullen with his Flock of Misses, 1679.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- Title:
- Poems on affairs of state: from the time of Oliver Cromwell to the abdication of K. James the second. [ESTC R26892]
- Page No(s):
- pp. 141-4
- Poem Title:
- Cullen with his Flock of Misses, 1679.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- Title:
- Remains of the Right Honourable John, Earl of Rochester. [T195177]
- Page No(s):
- pp.59-68
- Poem Title:
- Colon.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Rochester's name
- Attributed To:
- John Wilmot
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